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David Gill’s Looting Matters- A head of Hermes from a genuinely old Italian collection
- Further returns to Italy from the San Antonio Museum of Art
- Returns to Italy from the San Antonio Museum of Art
- Another statue associated with Bubon returns to Türkiye
- Düver fragments returned to Türkiye from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Head of Demosthenes returns to Türkiye
- Two lots withdrawn from Bonham's sale
- An Analysis of the Stern Collection of Cycladicising Art
- Hecht fragment returns to Italy
- Further returns to Greece from the Met
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Archaeological Looting in Venezuela
- Time to Switch to laser shows and formation lightweight drones?
- Christmas 2025
- The MAGAmerican view of History: Greenland and the US Heritage
- Ukrainian Border Guards Foil Coin Smuggling to Bulgaria
- Italy Arrests Artefact Hunters Supplying the Antiquities Market
- Yet Another British Museum Theft
- Operation METHODICAL: Protecting London’s Art During a Nuclear Attack
- New Iraqi Museum Planned
- Despite the Antiquities Trade being State-Controlled
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- Alleged Bubon Smuggling Network Widens
- Marlowe on the Real Issue with the Glyptotek Head
- 27 Objects Seized From the Met
- Smash and Smash at the Dallas Museum of Art
- Elizabeth Marlowe’s Review of ‘The Brutish Museum’
- The Terrific Pandora Papers Looted Art Article
- Italian Senate renews call for return of the ‘Bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth’
- Psychics, Bowie knives, fake Alamo artifacts: New Book out today on how Texas can’t shake the Alamo
- Online Symposium on the Benin Bronzes Friday Apr. 9
- University of Aberdeen will repatriate a Benin bronze to Nigeria
- Conflict Antiquities
- ‘if we just stopped stealing, we would have enough money for everything’: cultural property crime by police officers and legal nihilism among professional criminals and ordinary citizens in Russia
- black digging of modern militaria in northern Europe
- Mobilising Care for Cultural Heritage in Russia’s War against Ukraine: looting and trafficking
- Mobilising Care for Cultural Heritage in Russia’s War against Ukraine: key findings and recommendations
- asides on black digging (illegal excavation) of modern militaria in eastern Europe
- asides on artefact hunting by cannabis cultivators in eastern Europe
- documenting the appropriation of cultural assets from Kherson Art Museum – a report by the Curia Lab for the Conflict Observatory
- ‘a system under [increasing] pressure’: the number of artefact-hunting detectorists in Scotland
- illicit trafficking of cultural objects by forced migrants – profitable to violent political organisations and corrupt officials, intensified by failed refugee policy
- Russia was ‘doomed to expand [its] aggression’ against Ukraine: Cultural property criminals’ responses to the invasion and occupation of the Donbas since 20th February 2014
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- The Partridge Chase: How two Roman toddlers led Spain to a trafficking breakthrough
- Book Review: Unseen: Art and Crime in Australia
- Boris Vervoordt’s TEFAF Appointment Sparks Debate on Leadership, Influence, and Problematic Art
- Interview with Marcel Marée - Egyptologist and curator in the Department of Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum
- Meet Our Alumni: ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series — Aubrey Catrone, Provenance Researcher and ARCA Alumna
- Interview with Professor Saskia Hufnagel: Cultural Heritage Law, Art Crime, and the ARCA Experience
- A Case Study in Patience: The Long Journey Home for the Stela of Adad-nerari III
- Meet our Alumni — ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Sue Berryman
- Meet our Alumni — ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Nikki Georgopulos, curator and assistant professor
- How the ’Ndràngheta turned ancient sites Into criminal assets: Findings from Operation Ghenos-Scylletium exposes the role of TOCGs in archaeological plunder
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